雅思基础班(句子分析)

1.The reader‟s hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine,

a lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of

her five husbands.

2.It has been said that everyone lives by selling something.

3.It has been rumored that the copper used in the building of the Statue of Liberty in New

Jersey came from V isnes Copper Mines at Karmoy near Stavanger in Norway.

4.It is said that if anyone touches the tree, he will have bad luck.

5.Why people are prepared to tolerate a four-hour journey each day for the dubious privilege of

living in the country is beyond me.

6.Though it may be possible to measure the value of material goods in terms of money, it is

extremely difficult to estimate the true value of the services which people perform for us.

7.He may never be sure that where the next meal is coming from.

8.In early Colonial America settlers used makeshift shelters, the most primitive of which was

the dugout , like a cave dug into the side of a hill, sometimes built up with sod and covered over with poles and bark.

9.Only the iron cooling pots they had brought with them gave any indication of the advanced

technology out of which these people had come.

10.Only when he saw that the man was actually telephoning the police did he realize that they

had all been the victims of a hoax

11.It is only in recent years that it has gained an evil reputation.

12.If we remain inveterate smokers , it is only because we have so often experienced the

frustration that results form failure

13.it is bacteria that have generated the oxygen we breathe on earth.

14.It is the desire for solitude or the chance of making an unexpected discovery that lures people

down to the depths of the earth.

15.A consistent belief through most of the 18th and 19th centuries was that character could be

read from a person‟s face, or the bumps on his or her head, or from facial expressions, and that portraits should convey these indicators of character..

16.His band had one feature tha t later jazz authorities recognized as indispe nsable “the trance”,

an ability to sink himself in the music until nothing mattered but himself and the cornet , in fervent communion..

17.The notion that mental illness resulted from physical impairment was rarely challenged, but

the nature and treatment of ailments were continually debated.

18.We have no idea how to get across the river.

19.Patent medicine used in America dates back to the early days of the Republic, when drugs

imported from Europe were sold by postmasters, goldsmiths, grocers, and tailors.

20.Bagrit foresaw a time when computers would be small enough to hold in the hand, when they

would be capable of providing information about traffic jams and suggesting alternative routes, when t hey would be used in hospitals to help doctors to diagnose illnesses, when they would relieve office workers and accountants of dull, repetitive clerical work..

21.Be very careful when working around areas where black widow spiders may be established.

22.But most manufacturers did not seek patents on the formulas for their medicines, since these

were often combinations of common products like alcohol and vegetable extracts which they preferred not to reveal.